This parade was their chance to showcase their beauty and appeal in what one historian would call a spectacle “as well ...

Suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular ...

DENVER — It's been more than a century since the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In Colorado, women fought for and won that right nearly three decades earlier. Still, the push to secure ...

It’s March 3, 1913, and the nation’s capital is in chaos. Up Pennsylvania Avenue march some 5,000 suffragists, demanding a ...

To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the stories of how women won the right to vote in the United States. To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the ...

Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that marks a ...

Women’s Social and Political Union Exhibition stand, probably at Claxton Hall during the Women’s Parliament, February 1908 (Image courtesy Museum of London) In 2009, a striking collection of some ...

Author Wendy Rouse unearthed the stories of queer suffragettes in her book, "Public Spaces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Suffrage Movement," including some who lived in Massachusetts. She ...